Your skin loses the ability to lock in moisture as you age. Your skin loses approximately 25% of its ability to bind moisture by age 20-40. Our deep hydration facial returns your skin to its silky smooth state by smoothing the skin, increasing luminosity, reducing the appearance of pores and providing long-lasting hydration. Expect results to improve with use over months not weeks.
The cellular mechanics of moisture retention
Smooth even skin is essential in our view in that the stratum corneum is able to maintain an optimum level of water content. When it fails to do so, the skin becomes dull and rough with dead skin cells accumulating haphazardly. This effect is more pronounced than normal aging or environmental stress effects peculiar to our unique treatment approach.
Our range of deeply hydrating products deliver humectants such as Hyaluronic Acid deep into the skin, holding water and moisture and locking it in. At the same time, they support the skin’s own ceramide production and create a further water barrier.
Many of our patients do not fully understand the process of laser skin treatments and how they create results. Instead of immediate improvements to the skin, the real changes occur in the weeks after the treatment as the skin rehydrates with moisture causing skin to go back to its normal cellular turnover process. This process of regression to the mean causes the surface of the skin to slough off the outermost most dead dry layer of skin and be replaced with brand new healthy cells.
Progressive improvements through barrier repair
Your skin has its own barriers which are like semi-permeable membranes, letting in good things like water and nutrients but keeping out bad things like irritants and dryness. When this barrier is broken, your skin dries out and allows irritants to enter the skin, causing tough, flaky skin.
Our deep hydration facials repair the skin’s barrier by exfoliating and aggressively hydrating the skin to give it the nutrients it needs to come back healthy and strong. These treatments give the skin back layer by layer, and with multiple sessions, the result gets progressively better.
Hydration between sessions is noticeable but the greater improvements in skin texture are visible between the 3rd and 6th treatments.
Collagen synthesis drives structural changes
You may have read that the skin with the best chance of making collagen is already hydrated, which is why our deep hydration facials can create long lasting texture changes by ‘priming’ the skin into making its own collagen.
If the skin has the right amount of moisture, then the fibroblasts create more collagen and elastin, the two proteins which make up the structure of the skin and impart firmness and smoothness to it. The skin that has ample collagen can hold on to moisture better. It is an inter-dependent process.
For those who receive HydraFacial in Jacksonville, the most dramatic changes in skin texture occur around the 3 month mark. This is because that is when the new collagen formation peaks, making for the most dramatic texture improvement.
Pore appearance and surface refinement
Enlarged pores are one of the most common skin complaints and tend to affect those with oily or combination skin.
Hydrating your skin will normalise your skin’s oil production helping to prevent oil building up in the skin, stretching out your pores. Exfoliation is also crucial in removing dull surface skin cells that make pores look bigger. In the long run, by improving skin elasticity, the skin will be able to contract back onto itself, giving your skin an even and flawless finish.
Visible pore refining occurs within 6 to 8 weeks with continued refining and improvement occurring over several months.
Cellular turnover optimization
Did you know your skin regenerates itself every 28 days on average? As we get older and our skin deals with the wear and tear of our surroundings, your skin’s natural regenerative cycle becomes less consistent and slow.
Deep hydration facials allow the skin to best prepare itself to regenerate by first hydra- treating the skin to the optimal level of moisture, allowing skin cells to best divide and rise to the surface most evenly and uniformly for the most even and smoothest result.
After several generations of evolution and selection, one can visibly harvest several generations of improved cells on the surface of the system.
Measuring progress and realistic expectations
Texture analysis for practitioners is significantly improved after 4 to 6 sessions held 2 to 3 weeks apart, and clients can expect to notice changes in skin texture and appearance within a few weeks.
After salicylic acid or peeling treatments, the surface of the skin can undergo significant changes such as becoming less rough, reducing glare, and making your makeup look better. Additionally, your skin can gain luminosity and appear healthier, which you can see in the before and after photos displayed side by side. Our clients often comment that they feel the changes in their skin before they can see the changes in the photos.
This service provides results that you can really experience over time – as your skin regenerates itself over its own natural cycle of time – and feel after repeated uses, leaving your skin softer and more healthy textured.
